Thirty-one new writers make their debut in The Ghost-Eater and Other Stories, a collection compiled by Diane Awerbuck and edited by Louis Greenberg. Funny and sad and highly original, the stories in The Ghost-Eater and Other Stories are invested with the passion, truth and quirkiness of the newest New South Africa and gives readers a chance to gauge the newest authors writing in South Africa at the moment.

Diane Awerbuck is the author of Gardening at Night, which was awarded the Commonwealth Best First Book Award (Africa and the Caribbean) and was shortlisted for the International Dublin IMPAC Award. She teaches Narrative and Aesthetics, History, and English. Her reviews, essays and short stories are published regularly. Her doctorate, The Spirit and the Letter: Trauma, Warblogs and the Public Sphere, and a new novel, are due out in 2012.